officer has been charged with murder after he was filmed shooting a defenceless black man eight times as he ran away.

South Carolina Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager killed Walter Scott on Saturday after he was pulled over in his car for having a brake light out.

Graphic footage of the incident captured the final moments of the 50-year-old’s life shortly after he was stopped.

The 33-year-old officer was arrested within hours of North Charleston mayor and the city’s police chief receiving the video.

During a press conference authorities said Mr Scott was shot after the officer already had hit him with a stun gun.

"I can tell you that as the result of that video and the bad decision made by our officer, he will be charged with murder," North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said.

"When you're wrong, you're wrong."

In the video, Scott, wearing a green T-shirt, appears to drop something near the officer's feet and runs in the opposite direction.

Slager fires seven times, pauses, and then fires an eighth round as Scott slumps to the ground.

The officer says over the radio that Scott went for his stun gone, although the video does not show this But the footage does appear to show the officer dropping his stun gun by Scott's side after he's been shot.

The shooting comes as racial tensions between the police and America’s black community run high following the deaths of three unarmed men in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson last year.

No officers were ever charged in relation to the deaths which sparked widespread protests and rioting across America

BluIvy:
I hope they hang him with his baals, sneaky nonsense if no one took the video the black guy was going to be blamed. White Americans are commiting genocide on black American men in the US because they hate being led by a black man Obama, sadly the law has been on their side.

Only God knows, but if by any miracle more videos of many others killed this way would resurface it would be great, so that the US could wear the cloak of shame for their holier than thou attitude while commiting worse atrocities in their own back yard to their own citizens.

GOD IS TRULY GREAT! WE THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS! YOU NEVER FORSAKE YOUR PEOPLE IN THE TRUE SENSE.

searching4lovee:
White pig